Re: about the recent client changes...

Bruce Korb wrote:

> The boolean is anticipatory.
> *When* svn becomes a shell :), certain commands will need to run
> in the parent process (e.g. "exit" and "cd"), while nearly all
> others will run in a subprocess (so they can exit with failure
> without killing the main loop).

I'd like to stomp on this one before it happens.

There exist systems where "fork" doesn't exist -- e.g., it's gruesomly
expensive and inconvenient to implement. Is the only for creating a
subprocess so that you can write "exit(1)" instead of "return 1"? If so,
please consider doing without subprocesses.

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